Europe’s earliest inter-regional conflict?
Analysis of arrowheads from Bronze Age Europe is uncovering new details about an ancient battle that took place in the Tollense Valley.
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Germany’s ‘Little Dunkirk’: Operation Hannibal, January-May 1945
The Kriegsmarine’s last major military undertaking was the evacuation of more than a million German troops and civilians trapped around the Baltic, as David Porter explains.
Arrowheads shed light on one of Europe’s oldest battlefields
It is one of the oldest and most mysterious battlefields in Europe. But new research into arrowheads dating from the 13th century BC has revealed more about who was involved. The Tollense Valley in the northern German state of Mecklenburg…
Bronze figurine
What is it? This small female figurine made of bronze is 14.7cm tall and weighs 155g. The figure has an egg-shaped head with a prominent nose, and a flat body with looped arms, two knobs on the chest signifying breasts,…